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A Spanish court has refused to fine NordVPN in a case linked to LaLiga’s fight against illegal football streaming. Earlier this year, a court ordered VPN providers like NordVPN and ProtonVPN to block access to pirate football streams. LaLiga later asked the court to punish NordVPN for not following the order. However, the court decided not to issue fines after accepting that there was a real technical dispute about whether the blocking could actually be done by the VPN provider. The decision is important because it shows how difficult it can be to apply anti-piracy rules to VPN services. VPN companies say their systems are built for privacy and security, not for monitoring or blocking specific content. The bad thing is the ruling does not cancel the original order Sc: torrentfreak.com/spanish-court-…

【博麗神社例大祭出張版in秩父】 成年向け作品の頒布不可に関するお詫び 8/30に開催を予定しております「博麗神社例大祭出張版in秩父」におきまして、開催上の都合により成年向け作品の頒布・展示が行えないことが判明いたしました。 この度は、事前調整および確認不足によりご迷惑をおかけしましたこと、深くお詫び申し上げます。 なお、春・秋開催の「博麗神社例大祭」につきましては、これまで通り成年向け作品を含めた通常形態で開催予定です。 #例大祭

Meta is lobbying for KOSA in the US. But watch what they already did in Australia, broken down by TechWinCyber in his new video. Australia was the test case. Now they're coming for you. NewsCorp is also behind this. They must be stopped. youtube.com/watch?v=kUMItA…

Adults are treated like children globally. There is 0 reason for this. It does nothing. What is the point of censoring an image when the book must be wrapped up, put in a special part of the store, and even the clerk has to check your ID? There is 0 reason to do this. The artist wants to draw it. The customer wants to see it. It is globally a mental illness people tolerate this.

They're not running scared at all. Meta and X have already publicly declared support for KOSA. The whole thing is designed to deanonymize us from the internet. More and more people are seeing through your scam.

This will work out the same way it worked out in Australia: mass VPN adoption for adults who don’t want to deal with the hassle of doxing themselves, and mass circumvention by British kids who want to use the Internet like everyone else on the planet.

Freedom campaigner Montgomery Toms warns that the UK government's obsession with digital ID and facial recognition could lead to a Chinese-style social credit system, eroding privacy and freedom. He recounts his own arrest for expressing politically incorrect views, highlighting how such a system could be used to target political opponents.

Let me you a little secret. This is a lie. This bill is called the Stop CSAM Act so that no one can look like a bad person by opposing it. But this bill does nothing for CSAM. In fact, this is a bill to gut Section 230 completely. Trojan horse of all trojan horses.

it seems like all these "protect children" orgs are kicking up and collaborating with some senators to push to gut Section 230, which will kill the internet, and push age verification.

South Carolina just passed a law requiring platforms to estimate your age every 100 hours of use, or any time they run their algorithms on you. 80% confidence minimum, $10k fine per wrong guess. The incentive is to collect more data about everyone, including kids. reclaimthenet.org/south-carolina…

SHIMONETA SE HACE CANON Un creador japonés de juegos para adultos conocido como Barrack Ballad reveló que la policía allanó su casa, decomisó su PC y celular, lo interrogó y le impuso una multa de más de 300.000 yenes… todo por olvidar borrar una sola imagen de una waifu sin mosaico. El error ocurrió al transferir archivos entre su teléfono y su computadora y subió temporalmente la imagen a un servidor público 18+. Aunque fue un descuido, las autoridades lo trataron como distribución de material para adultos. Mientras hablaba de las nuevas reglas más estrictas de mosaico en Fantia, el artista advirtió a otros creadores: “Solo por subir una imagen así puedes terminar con multa y antecedentes penales”. Solo en Japón una sola imagen 2D puede convertirte en criminal del mes.

The UK speech regulator's incoming chair calls VPNs a "technical problem," wants new powers over YouTube, and deliberately avoided meeting any tech companies before taking the job. He only consulted a group pushing for broader censorship laws. Ian Cheshire is building a speech police force and calling it safety. reclaimthenet.org/incoming-chief…

Simply adding an age gate won’t create a safe online environment. Robust system design, including effective moderation, safer algorithms, and real accountability, will. bit.ly/4doyzvS

My genuine hatred for the corrupt and ill-informed is at an all time high. This is a brain damaged rep voted in by brain damaged people. Evidence? Look at what it espouses. Parents need to parent. Companies dont “allow children” anything. The parent does. Stop fear mongering around children.

BREAKING NEWS: The Justice Centre announces that it has delivered a national petition signed by 42,344 Canadians from every province and territory calling on Members of Parliament to defeat Bill C-22, the federal government’s proposed surveillance legislation. Justice Centre board member and constitutional historian Dr. John Robson formally presented the petition in Ottawa, warning that Bill C-22 would significantly expand state surveillance powers while undermining the privacy protections essential to a free society. “Privacy is not a luxury in a free society,” said Dr. Robson. “Privacy protects freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and the ability of ordinary Canadians to live without constant monitoring by the state.” Read the full story here: jccf.ca/42344-canadian… The Justice Centre is Canada’s leading civil liberties organization fighting for Charter rights and freedoms in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion. Founded in 2010, the Justice Centre funds lawyers across Canada, relies entirely on voluntary donations to carry out its mission, and issues official tax receipts to donors. To donate, click on this link: jccf.kindful.com

The Stop Killing Games campaign just had one of its biggest moments in the European Parliament. During a debate in Strasbourg, many Members of the European Parliament spoke in support of better consumer rights for video games. Most speakers agreed that companies should not be able to shut down games that people had already paid for. Support came from several political groups, including the Greens, Renew Europe, S&D, The Left, and even some EPP members Many MEPs said games should be treated more like products than temporary online services. They argued that buyers should not lose access just because a company ends support or shifts players to a newer title. Some MEPs criticized the European Commission for not taking stronger action. There are concerns it may issue only a non-binding statement instead of new laws. The debate showed that Stop Killing Games is now being taken seriously at the highest political level in Europe. The discussion is no longer only about gaming but also about digital ownership, consumer rights, and companies’ obligations after purchase.

kosa app store accountability KIDS and many other bills that's in the house and in different states does this

👎Australia's social media ban is proving to fail on many fronts New data reveals that the ban is preventing teenagers' access to news. The lesson for the UK is clear - a social media ban would mean ID checks for all of us and it would come at serious cost to our rights, freedom and access to information. Read⤵️ theguardian.com/australia-news…

🚨The SMART Kids Act is very concerning...not the bill itself, but the almost certain escalation we are going to see. 1⃣Introduced on May 12th, the SMART Kids Act directs the Surgeon General to study and develop recommendations for screen time limits for children. 2⃣Yesterday, the Surgeon General advisory about screen time and children was released and included just such a study. If this passes, which it seems extremely likely, the Surgeon General will come back to Congress with recommended screen time limits to kids which will turn into age-based mandates. ❓How do you know the age of a user? Age verification. ❓How do you enforce screen time limits? Session monitoring. ❓How do you monitor sessions across different devices? Device level tracking infrastructure. For everybody. This SMART Kids Act is bad news...huge mission creep for Digital ID and government surveillance. I didn't even mention parental rights...but with big gov who needs parents?!

British citizens are flocking to Trump’s free speech portal in huge numbers, according to the US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy. Sarah Rogers said Brits make up the clear majority of visitors to a VPN landing page set up by the White House last year to help users circumvent the UK’s censorious online laws. Rogers said this reflects the fact that Britons are living under a government “hostile to freedom of speech”. The Trump administration has repeatedly criticised Britain’s Orwellian Online Safety Act. Speaking at an event in Washington DC, Rogers said: “It’s no coincidence. America’s roots are in Britain. The roots of our common law are in Britain. We have more in common with these people than divides us. “Just because governments and key sectors of civil society are hostile to freedom of speech doesn’t mean the people are.” The administration’s national security strategy says it is interested in “cultivating resistance” within European politics, warning that censorship and restrictions on free speech risk “civilisational erasure”. Rogers added: “I think it is America’s role to advance receptivity among European publics to certain ideas: ideas like ‘mass migration disrupts societies’; ideas like ‘Europe should take a stronger hand in its own defence’; ideas like ‘the government should focus on policing the streets, not the tweets’.” Read more below 👇